Chapter 107: Avenge the Eldest Brother!
Just then, Wang Laozhu stepped forward and grabbed her, and she leaned against him, her tears starting to fall, "My poor son, my Eldest Brother! Mother has wronged you, I married you off to such a bad omen, causing you harm! You’ve had such a hard life, never enjoyed any blessings, and just as your son was growing up, about to enjoy life, he was ruined by that wretched woman Lin Xinghua! This vile woman, worth less than dogs, how could she bear it? Your Lin Family was so poor, wearing the same pair of pants out, and when you married into our Wang Family, other than a trunk full of tattered clothes you couldn’t wear, everything on you was provided by our Wang Family, even worse than a purchased bride."
"In our Wang Family, we didn’t starve you, we let you eat your fill, we kept you warm, you fell into a nest of good fortune! Yet, you were never content, stirring up trouble every day at home, influencing our Eldest Brother to be unfilial to us, his parents. We could have tolerated that since children are a parent’s debt, as long as you were good to our Eldest Brother, we would have accepted you! But you shouldn’t have, you really shouldn’t have harmed your own husband! The Wang Family supported you all these years, yet you are so thin-skinned, threatening to kill yourself over a few scolding words, tempting your husband to disrespect his parents. I really should go to the Lin Family and ask if they harbor a grudge against our Wang Family, to send us such a harmful creature, intent on bringing down my entire Wang Family—"
She continued to sob, "My Eldest Brother, what a sin! How can your mother go on living with you like this? It breaks my heart to think of you, my poor son, with you like this, what are the Jindou brothers going to do? They’re still children, yet they have to support this family now, what kind of sin have we committed—"
Her crying was indeed heart-wrenching.
Those who heard the commotion and came to watch couldn’t help but wipe their own tears.
Wang Laozhu felt even more affected by these words, thinking back to if it hadn’t been for his own mother insisting, pressing his wife with filial piety, he wouldn’t have married Lady Lin, this harmful creature.
At that time, he had even quarreled fiercely with his wife over this, and gave her the cold shoulder for a month until she tearfully agreed to the marriage.
After marrying, although Lady Lin could be a bit scheming, once she had regained her health, she turned out to be quite skilled in handling chores, and as his Eldest Brother was honest and dependable, having such a wife seemed good enough to keep the family stable.
But to his dismay, she had harmed his son!
Jindou, Jinhu, and Jinguan, the three brothers, felt sorrow for their father still unconscious in the house and couldn’t bear to see Lady Lin actually beaten by Old Granny Zhang. Upon hearing Old Granny Zhang’s wailing, especially the last two sentences expressing concern for them, it struck fear and panic deep in their hearts.
Jindou and Jinhu were just red-eyed, but when Jinguan thought about his father becoming disabled, he could not hold back and burst into tears.